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Existing-Home Sales Slide 1.3 Percent in July

WASHINGTON (August 24, 2017) – Listings in July typically went under contract in under 30 days for the fourth consecutive month because of high buyer demand, but existing-home sales ultimately pulled back as large declines in the Northeast and Midwest outweighed sales increases in the South and West, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

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Existing home median price (July)

Housing Starts (July)

New home sales (June)

National economic indicators

Home ownership

2nd Quarter 2017

63.7%

1st Quarter 2017

63.6%

The homeownership rate of 63.7 percent was 0.8 percentage points higher than the rate in the second quarter 2016 (62.9 percent) and not statistically different from the rate in the first quarter 2017 (63.6 percent).

New home sales

June 2017

+0.8%

July 2017

-9.4%

Sales of new single-family houses in July 2017 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 571,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 9.4 percent (±12.9 percent)* below the revised June rate of 630,000 and is 8.9 percent (±15.4 percent)* below the July 2016 estimate of 627,000.

Source: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

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